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Biden autopen orders should be void — as elderly president’s actions were ‘not all his own’ after health cover-up, bombshell report finds

Dozens of Joe Biden’s executive actions “cannot all be deemed his own” after his closest advisers “went to great lengths to prop up” the 46th president as he suffered physical and cognitive decline in office, according to a bombshell report released Tuesday.

The House Oversight Committee staff document — based on more than a dozen interviews with Biden aides — lays out how the Democrat’s “inner circle” took steps to “meticulously stage-manage” his public appearances, lighten his private workload, and even block lawmakers from talking to him.

“These steps ranged from addressing President Biden’s makeup, clothing, schedule, the number of steps President Biden could walk or climb, the amount of time President Biden needed to read and to spend with his family,” the 91-page report states, “keeping cabinet meetings to a minimum, eliciting ‘direction’ from Hollywood on the State of the Union and other events, and using teleprompters even at small, intimate events.”

In fact, when Biden gave his son Hunter a sweeping pardon from tax and gun felonies — as well as any potential crimes committed over an 11-year period — the president was given a notecard full of approved talking points, Axios journalist and “Original Sin” co-author Alex Thompson first reported.

The investigation, run by Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), also found that executive orders signed by autopen — including some presidential pardons — should be considered null and void since they were authorized with no “approval traceable to the president’s own consent.”

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Biden White House ADMITS It Followed Media Spin to Dismiss “Cheap Fakes”

Former White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee exposed how the Biden administration—under former President Joe Biden—relied on media spin to protect his public image. 

Jean-Pierre admitted that the administration used the term “cheap fakes,” a label invented by liberal media outlets, to dismiss viral videos showing Biden appearing confused, frozen, or disoriented. 

When asked whether the administration had verified any of the videos before repeating that claim, she admitted it had not. The White House had followed the media’s lead.

This admission reveals how the Biden team prioritized narrative over truth. 

Rather than independently assessing evidence, the administration amplified the media’s language to downplay legitimate concerns about the president’s behavior. 

Jean-Pierre’s testimony confirms that political optics took precedence over transparency, even when the issue involved the public’s trust in a sitting president.

The reality is that many of the so-called “cheap fakes” weren’t fake at all. 

Unedited footage from the 2024 Juneteenth concert showed Biden standing motionless while others danced around him. 

At the G7 summit in Italy, cameras captured Biden wandering away from a group of world leaders until Italy’s Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, gently redirected him back.

The incident, widely circulated on social media, showed other leaders looking on awkwardly as Biden appeared disoriented, reinforcing growing concerns about his awareness and ability to engage in high-level diplomacy.

Independent fact-checkers later confirmed that those clips were authentic and unaltered—contradicting the White House’s claims.

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88-Year-Old Congresswoman Is Exposed For Having 7 No-Show Jobs

Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington D.C.’s 88-year-old congressional delegate, claims to sit on multiple boards at prestigious institutions, but investigations reveal she hasn’t been active with them in years. Some of these positions no longer even exist according to a report by Luke Goldstein and Dan Boguslaw. 

According to her latest financial disclosure, Norton lists positions on roughly half a dozen boards. However, when contacted, three organizations reported no recent contact with her, while two confirmed their boards had been dissolved years ago.

These revelations follow a troubling NBC4 report that obtained a police document detailing how scammers posing as HVAC repairmen defrauded Norton of $4,400 for services never performed. The report also noted that Norton has a caretaker with power of attorney who reported the fraud.

Norton, once a prominent civil rights leader who participated in the 1963 March on Washington, now appears to have outdated information on her ethics forms, suggesting her staff may be resubmitting portions automatically without updates.

Goldstein and Boguslaw observed that the boards Norton lists include the executive committee of the Yale Law School Association, the board of trustees for Antioch College, the lawyers committee for civil rights, and advisory boards at Georgetown’s Women’s Law & Public Policy Fellowship Program, American University’s Women and Politics Institute, and the Sewall Belmont House.

Repeated inquiries to these organizations yielded concerning responses. Norton was a founding member of Georgetown’s Women’s Law & Public Policy Fellowship Program and regularly hosted fellows for Capitol Hill lunches. However, according to a spokesperson, she hasn’t done so since 2019.

American University’s response was even more revealing: “The Women & Politics Institute no longer has an advisory board,” they wrote, per Goldstein and Boguslaw’s report. 

Similarly, representatives for the Sewall-Belmont House explained that ownership transferred to the National Park Service in 2016, and the Park Service has no record of an advisory board or Norton’s current involvement with the site.

Two congressional sources confirmed Norton is largely absent from committee meetings and planning sessions. During the Trump administration’s deployment of trfcioops to Washington D.C., Norton was nearly invisible except for a generic condemnation statement.

Republican-led hearings on D.C. crime and public safety should have been Norton’s opportunity to defend her constituents, but she struggled through a prepared statement. Sources close to city council reported her “halting” performance immediately sparked discussions about organizing efforts to push her toward retirement.

Two city council members have since announced primary challenges: Robert White, the current at-large council member, and Brooke Pinto, the Ward 2 council member.

Despite these challenges, Norton has told reporters she intends to run for re-election at age 90, though her staff maintains she hasn’t decided.

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“That Is a World-Class Pivot” — Kamala Harris Gets Absolutely Grilled and Called Out for Dodging Biden’s Obvious Mental Decline in Cringe-Worthy Word Salad Interview

In yet another painfully awkward public moment, Kamala Harris got absolutely torched during an exclusive interview with ABC’s Sarah Ferguson when pressed about Joe Biden’s mental decline

The interview, aired Wednesday night, was meant to be a softball promo for Harris’s memoir, which ABC hyped as an inside look at “the shortest and most consequential Presidential campaign in modern history.”

What viewers got instead was a masterclass in liberal denial. Ferguson, to her credit, didn’t let Harris off the hook, repeatedly pressing her on Biden’s refusal to step aside despite his obvious frailties, frailties that were on full display during that disastrous debate where he could barely string a coherent sentence together.

“Wasn’t Joe Biden then to put it on him? Wasn’t his refusal to recognize his own frailties, the reason that you faced a nearly impossible task?” Ferguson asked pointedly.

Harris launched into a convoluted rant that had nothing to do with the question:

“I ran against Donald Trump for president, and Donald Trump ran on a platform that was, in large part, I believe, misrepresenting his intentions to the American people.

I do believe that there are a fair number of people who voted for Donald Trump who believed him when he told them that his first priority on day one was going to be to bring down prices—and he didn’t.

And you combine that misrepresentation of intention with what was at play in terms of massive amounts of mis- and disinformation—forgive me—and a calendar in terms of the clock.”

Ferguson quickly cut through the nonsense:

“I want to interrupt you because that is a world-class pivot, but it is not the question that I asked you, which is about Joe Biden’s failure to recognize his own frailties and what that did to you. The question is about Joe Biden.”

The look on Harris’s face said it all — deer-in-the-headlights panic followed by another evasive deflection.

Ferguson, to her credit, didn’t back down, probing why Harris “won’t go to that prolonged frailty question.”

Harris’s response was more deflection, claiming she’d addressed it in her book while dismissing the debate as a one-off due to “travel schedule” and “timing.”

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“We’ve Handed This to Pam Bondi on a Silver Platter”: James Comer Demands Bondi to Nullify Biden’s Autopen Pardons and Executive Orders After GOP Oversight “Did All the Heavy Lifting”

House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) is ramping up pressure on Attorney General Pam Bondi, urging her to take decisive action to invalidate Joe Biden’s pardons and executive orders that were signed by autopen rather than the president himself during his final days in office, without his knowledge and consent.

In an interview with Just the News, Comer said his committee had done the “tedious, hard work” of exposing how Biden’s aides wielded presidential powers while the commander-in-chief was allegedly “checked out.”

Comer is now calling on Attorney General Pam Bondi to take decisive action against the sweeping abuse of executive authority under Joe Biden.

“We’ve handed this to Pam Bondi on a silver platter. We’ve done all the heavy lifting,” Comer said. “We’ve done the depositions. We’ve combed through the emails. I mean, this is the hard, tedious work of an investigation.”

The Kentucky Republican didn’t mince words, urging Bondi to haul in Biden’s former aides for questioning and put their defenses to the test.

“Now it’s up to her to bring these people in,” he said. “If there’s anything in the report that’s inaccurate, if there’s anything in the deposition that we reported that are mischaracterized, then now here’s your opportunity to try to defend the other position. If not, then the report is 100% accurate, and the pardons need to be declared null and void.”

“Obviously, you’re going to use the auto pen for certificates of achievement, for mass letters, for correspondence. But with respect to legal documents, a pardon, a presidential pardon is a powerful thing.

“If the President himself can’t physically sign that pardon, there has to be a reason. Either the President didn’t evaluate the pardon, or the president wasn’t in a mental or physical shape to be able to sign his name. And you know that’s what we had here with Joe Biden.”

Comer’s remarks come just hours after his committee released a bombshell report concluding that many of Biden’s late-term executive actions were “legally invalid,” urging the Department of Justice to investigate and accusing senior Biden aides of covering up the president’s deteriorating mental state.

Comer also urged the DOJ to investigate further after it was revealed that Hunter Biden had attended multiple meetings where pardon requests were being reviewed during the final days of the Biden presidency.

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House Oversight Committee Deems ALL Biden Autopen Actions NULL AND VOID – Demands Investigation by AG Pam Bondi

The Biden autopen scandal has taken a new turn, and the Department of Justice may soon get involved.

The House Oversight Committee, led by Rep. James Comer (R-KY), released a 100-page report today declaring all of Biden’s autopen executive actions “null and void.”

These include pardons performed by White House staff and signed by an autopen.

From Comer:

@GOPoversight has exposed the Biden Autopen Presidency, revealing how top aides misled Americans and worked to maintain the illusion of presidential control as Biden’s capacity declined.

Executive actions taken by White House Biden staff & signed by autopen are NULL AND VOID.

The report calls on the Department of Justice and Attorney General Pam Bondi to conduct an investigation, including of Biden aides responsible for the cover-up.

“We are calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to conduct a thorough review of these executive actions and scrutinize key Biden aides who took the Fifth to hide their participation in the cover-up,” the report reads.

“The D.C. Board of Medicine must also review the actions taken by President Biden’s physician to hide his true condition. We have provided Americans with transparency about the Biden Autopen Presidency, and now there must be accountability,” it continues.

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Former Biden Press Sec Karine Jean-Pierre ‘Did Not Have Any Concerns’ About His Mental Decline — Insists He Was in Total Command

Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is insisting that she never had any concerns about his mental decline.

In an interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar on Friday to promote her new book, Jean-Pierre was asked about the cover-up that took place.

Here is a transcript of the exchange:

BRIANNA KEILAR: According to my colleague Jake Tapper, who wrote a book with Alex Thompson, looking back on that, cabinet secretaries were telling them that Biden wasn’t up to the task of the proverbial 2 a.m. phone call.

George Clooney said Biden didn’t even recognize him at the fundraiser that he was hosting. I mean, we’re talking 2023, 2024, why didn’t you see — why didn’t you have concerns? Why didn’t you raise them?

JEAN-PIERRE: So I did not have any concerns. I saw him on a daily basis, Brianna. You know that. I saw him every day. I engaged with him every day.

Now, did he show age? No one is denying that. Yes, he showed age. This is a president that was sharp. This is a president that pushed his staff. This is a president that was on top of what the policies that he cared about that were important to the American people.

And let’s not forget, he also was leading a coalition, a international coalition when it came to something that we hadn’t seen in decades when it come to the war in Ukraine. There was a lot going on. You just said it in asking me one of the questions. I

It was an unprecedented time. Objectively, Brianna, we had some successes, some historic successes in the beginning of, in the first couple of years of his first term, in his presidency, and so those are the things I’m talking my personal, from my personal standpoint, what I saw.

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Unearthed Biden note cards reveal he had bios, photo reminders on Hillary Clinton, Schumer

Unearthed note cards from the Biden era show the administration detailed the names and photos of high-profile Democrats, such as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as lesser-known individuals for then-President Joe Biden to ostensibly reference during live events, documents obtained by Fox News Digital show. 

Five different “palm cards,” which are hand-sized note cards frequently used by politicians for quick reminders or talking points during public events, especially while on the campaign trail, were uncovered amid an investigation of National Archive documents related to the Biden administration’s use of an autopen, and obtained by Fox News Digital.  

Four of the five cards obtained by Fox Digital are stamped with a disclaimer reading, “PRESIDENT HAS SEEN,” while a fifth card detailing an ABC News reporter’s question to Biden during a press conference did not include that stamp. 

It is unclear if Biden relied on each of the cards during the various public events. Fox News Digital reached out to Biden’s office for any comment and clarification on the use of the cards but did not immediately receive a reply. 

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PA Governor Shapiro Says Kamala Harris ‘Is Going to Have to Answer’ for Covering Up Joe Biden’s Rapidly Declining Health

“Loyal” Kamala Harris, who hinted that Joe Biden was racist when she first threw her hat in the presidential race, slammed Biden in her new book and also discussed why she kept quiet about Joe’s obvious, rapidly declining health.

In an excerpt obtained by The Atlantic from her upcoming memoir, ‘107 Days,’ Harris calls Biden’s decision to run for a second term ‘reckless’ and says it should not have been “left to an individual’s ego” or “ambition.”

Writing about her decision not to try to convince Biden to drop out, Harris writes, “’It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.’ We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized. Was it grace, or was it recklessness?”

“In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were simply too high.”

“This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.”

He typical word salad was not enough for Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) who said Harris “is going to have to answer” for being honest with the American people and letting the public know about Biden’s fitness to serve in the White House again.

Shapiro joined Stephen A. Smith on Thursday.

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Biden’s Former Chief of Staff Admits What We All Knew About Joe

You must wonder how many more ‘Biden was braindead’ stories are going to drop. A lot has happened, not all good, over the past couple of weeks, but the investigation into Joe Biden’s use of the autopen, among other things, is still ongoing. We knew no one was in charge, but it’s become quite a shambolic unraveling in how this White House operated. For starters, it shouldn’t be a herculean effort for the Speaker of the House to get one-on-one time with the president. When it happened, Speaker Johnson said Biden couldn’t remember some executive orders he’d signed. 

Now, his former chief of staff, Jeff Zients, is admitting that Joe couldn’t remember names, struggled with dates, and needed extra meetings to make decisions. In short, the president was cooked and was perpetually on the struggle bus in the final year of his failed presidency (via Axios):

Joe Biden had difficulty remembering names and dates, and often required extra meetings to make decisions in the final years of his presidency, his former chief of staff Jeff Zients told congressional investigators Thursday, according to people familiar with Zients’ remarks.

Why it matters: Zients is one of the highest-ranking officials from the Biden White House to acknowledge that Biden’s age affected his abilities — even as the 81-year-old president was seeking another four years in the Oval Office. 

Driving the news: In a closed hearing, Zients told the GOP-led House Oversight Committee that over the course of the presidency Biden began asking for more meetings. 

Instead of having three meetings before making a decision, for example, Biden would want four.

Zients said Biden had long had trouble with names and dates, but acknowledged to investigators that the president’s memory of such facts got worse in the final years of his term. 

The intrigue: Zients also said that former First Lady Jill Biden spoke with him about managing Biden as Zients was preparing to take on the role of chief of staff in early 2023. 

So, why did Democrats want this guy to run again? We know why—it’s was the cling onto power. Here we have a man who flat-out cannot do the job, but Democrats were willing to drag him along until they couldn’t, especially after the nation saw that he was brain-dead when he got bulldozed by Donald Trump in CNN’s June debate last year. And yet, for years, we were told all was well and that the report filed by Special Counsel Robert Hur, who investigated Biden for mishandling classified information, was off-base and mean-spirited. Hur described Biden as an old man with memory problems. Hur was right. We were right. The Democrats were wrong. At least, some top aides are starting to talk, whereas most have clammed up when subpoenaed. 

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